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An ideal document format would retain elegant typesetting on a variety of display sizes while remaining computationally efficient. Neither PDF nor XHTML satisfy this ideal. Discussed in the talk: COG PDFs add more structure to plain PDFs while staying within the confines of the PDF specification.

…everyone should have a custom editor for editing their program files… An editor is so easy to write that why not? (Presentation to SVFIG [around 21:16])

That is if a small group of people got together and decided to challenge Microsoft, we could replicate their software in 1/10th of 1% of the code… But again, why destroy an industry? That is probably not a wise thing to do. (Presentation to SVFIG [around 52:10])

First the software problems were solved. It was easy to write applications, trivial to write applications. (transcript)

Richard Stallman on user-modifiable software

Users must have the freedom to change their programs to do what they need.

[If you try to blow up a dog house by a factor of 100, it gets weaker by a factor of 100. In fact, what will happen is that the dog house will collapse. There are two choices when that happens.] The most popular one is to say, Well, that was what we were trying to do all along, put more garbage on it, plaster it over with limestone, and say, Yes, we were really trying to do pyramids, not Gothic cathedrals. That in fact accounts for much of the structure of modern operating systems today.